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zzx ,

I use i3, I love it

blkpws ,

Not a DE but I love it too!!

russjr08 ,
@russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net avatar

Generally Plasma. I really like the look of Libadwaita applications, but the GNOME desktop is very much a “do it our way, or take a hike” - and some of the interactions that I’ve seen in the past between the GNOME group and others… well, lets just say whenever I see drama in the Linux community as of recently its always been either with GNOME or Wayland. That doesn’t necessarily instill a lot of confidence in me using either of those.

governorkeagan OP ,

What’s with all the drama regarding Wayland? I’m seeing it constantly.

russjr08 ,
@russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net avatar

As far as I understand, its the major push for moving forward with Wayland and dropping X11 as fast as possible yet Wayland still doesn’t work for a lot of workflows (say, making use of global hotkeys, or Nvidia users, etc).

lemmyvore ,

Some Wayland fans like to ignore reality, like the fact 80% of Linux users use Nvidia, or that Nvidia offers a free Linux driver for their own reasons and have zero incentive to open source it, or that even if it weren’t for Nvidia we still can’t use Wayland because it’s not ready and doesn’t do everything that X does.

When you ignore reality you tend to get into arguments constantly.

zpoex ,
@zpoex@sh.itjust.works avatar

I use Hyprland, but if not, then GNOME… It’s just pretty and easy to use out of the box

pathief ,
@pathief@lemmy.world avatar

Man, Hyprland looks so cool. It’s unfortunate I own an Nvidia GPU, it shits she bed even on Wayland KDE

WinterAir ,

I use Debian with XFCE.Really lightweight and stable

crmsnbleyd ,
@crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz avatar

me as well

qyron ,

Back to Debian after a long hiatus and XFCE was my choice for the exact same reasons.

pixelscript , (edited )

My university Linux cluster was my first introduction to Linux in general, and they ran MATE of all things.

A few years later, when I decided I was done with Window’s bullshit and wanted to jump my daily driver to Linux, I installed Ubuntu MATE so I’d have the best familiarity edge I could to minimize friction.

MATE is alright. Despite being rather barebones and dated (being a life support fork of GNOME 2, I understand that is indeed kind of the point), it served me well for about 5 years.

I got a real urge to switch, though, due to just how little support or documentation there is for anything in MATE. I was also getting fed up with Ubuntu’s Snap crap as well. So I decided to dump both for something else.

I wanted to stay on Debian’s architecture for now, but no longer had need for Ubuntu’s handholding, so raw Debian it was. As for the DE, I personally like the rich, full-fat ones more than the lean ones, and I wanted something modern, popular, and with highly proliferous support resources. That basically meant GNOME 3 or KDE Plasma. And I guess maybe Cinnamon, but I always see it marketed as the “newly ex-Windows user training wheels” DE, and that isn’t my need.

GNOME 3 strikes me as the “MacOS” of Linux DEs. It wants to swim against the current to introduce its own paradigm. Everything designed to work in its ecosystem is buttery smooth and sexy, yes, but since it’s also a counterparadigm, that tends to relegate you to the pack-in software and a handful of big vendors. Most other software has to rely on clumsy shims to fit in. I’m not about it, tbh. I’m sure it’s fine, I just don’t think higher highs are worth the lower lows, and I generally wasn’t in the mood for a drastic paradigm shift.

So, KDE Plasma for me. It was unfortunate I made the leap just as they decided, “Wayland is stable and supported enough for everyone now!” (it isn’t, lol), so it’s a bit rockier than I was hoping, but whatever. Stability and support can only improve with time. And I expect faster adoption of Wayland than I do the GNOME 3 paradigm since Wayland is currently the only ship of its kind in the water that isn’t sinking.

Aaaaall that said, KDE treats me pretty well, minus the Wayland issues. Upgrading to it from MATE was like trading up from a cheap, dingy hostel to a clean 4-star hotel. Should’ve leapt years ago.

governorkeagan OP ,

Thank you for that very detailed response!

NiaTheCat , (edited )
@NiaTheCat@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The only ones I’ve really ended up liking are KDE Plasma, and Cosmic (both the modified Gnome verison, and hopefully the Rust version in the future too. Right now I’m enjoying Cosmic more than KDE Plasma so I have high hopes for it

dark_stang ,
@dark_stang@beehaw.org avatar

I love how Cosmic just stays out of your way and let’s you work. Never looked back after switching to it, hopefully the new one is the same thing but faster.

mikesailin ,

LXQT followed by Plasma

bbbhltz ,
@bbbhltz@beehaw.org avatar

Same

Thwompthwomp ,

Plasma. It’s the most customizable and you can dive in and shape it. It feels much more natural for me to jump into.

I put xfce on older hardware.

Distro wise I tend to go with Ubuntu flavors most because they seem to have better compatibility for various software and stuff I need, but I haven’t really shopped around too hard in years. Work is RHEL (and clones) and they make me sad.

governorkeagan OP ,

I’m thinking of settling on Ubuntu for the same reason. It’s easy enough to get a VM setup and test other distros if needed

atetulo ,

KDE

It’s like a swiss-army knife of DEs.

I try to make it look like Windows 7.

OddFed ,
@OddFed@feddit.de avatar

A person saying ‘they had us in the first half not gonna lie’

raven ,

Sway is really impressively stable if you’re willing to learn it and set it up. It’s a tiling WM.

I’ve been running the same arch install with roughly the same sway config for 3 years. My computer has never been so boring!

oscardejarjayes ,
@oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net avatar

I love Sway with Arch, been running it for about two years across a few devices. Sway has yet to freeze, crash, or otherwise act unstable. It’s wonderful.

nachtigall ,

Gnome. Feels most polished and least cluttered to me.

IrritableOcelot ,

Seconded. I used to use Ubuntu, but I switched to Debian + GNOME and I love it.

narwhalperson ,

I agree. I use gnome on nix and it has been great, especially on a touchpad.

Franzia ,

I’m new to this but KDE basically has all of the aesthetics customization features and quality of life features I always wanted out of Windows + Rainmeter. Finally I can have my videos pinned on the top easily every time. Finally I can have my fancy widgets. I can have universal color themes and fonts beyond what Windows ever offered. So there is more abstract stuff out there, but for now I’m living the long lost dream.

Artopal ,

Nowadays KDE.

Dr_01000111 ,
@Dr_01000111@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Gnome. On my laptop KDE and cinimon have given me a LOT of issues. I’ve had a lot of linux problems due to my hardware tho but finally found a fix and don’t want to change

Maturi0n ,

Cinnamon! Although I want to give KDE another chance to become my default DE.

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